Disintegrating machine



Oct. 4: D. C. A DIC S DISINTEGRATING MACHINE Filed April 3, 1926 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 4, 1927.

nmnnron c. Annroirs, or RAeLANn, ALABAMA. v

" DISI'NTEGRATIKG"MAoiiINE.

App1ication fi1ed April 3, 1926; "Serial'No'; 99399.

This invention 'rela'testo improvements in bottom 9 =bears upon the v gyratingt plate: 11 -disintegiati'ng'machines in which various "adjacent the-lower end thereof. materials are"'reduced fromone grade of Thecrankshatt'l l has fixed thereon a'gear 'particlesto a finer grade; and-is especially '15 'that is actuated-by pi-nion;r16-. uon a applicable in the treatmentofmaterials*counteflhtitt 17, and said-'countersha ---h,as ""wliile'in a wet state. The object of the' inactuated relatiolrwith the driveshaft 6' by vention is to provide in conjunction with a i asuitable transmittingmechanism l8, so that grinding or crushing means a feedingdeas the rotor in the crushing chamberwrevice for progressing the?materialto= be re-' volvesy the plate "11 will-' accor-dingly be duced by said means, especially whensaid gyrated. -i'nat'e'rial" is in asticky'condition; andto pre- -In=the operation of the invention the rotor vent massing of" the material upon theis rapidly revolvedby applying'powerto the breaker plate and the consequent hindrance drive-shaft in the customary manner, and to the grinding or crushing operation. the material to be treated is introduced into The object of the invention is accomthe hopper trom'which it passes over the plished by the construction illustrated in the movable bottom 9 and lower end of the accompanying drawings in which: gyrating plate onto the breaker plate where 1 is an elevation of a construction emit is subjected to the action of the hammers bodying the invention shown in section; and on the rotor and thereby reduced to a state Fig. 2 is a transverse section of Fig. 1 on that will admit of its passage through the the line 2-2 thereof. spaced bars. The downward thrust of the The characters appearing in the descriplower end of the gyrating bar tends to shove tion refer to parts shown in the drawings the material on the breaker plate into the and designated thereon by corresponding path of thehammers andscrapes the material 25 characters. 7 loose from thebreaker plate, and during the The invention comprises a grinding or upward thrust of the gyrating plate the crushing means including a housing 1 havlower end of the movable bottom 9 scrapes ing a hopper 2 and crushing chamber 3, the material loose from the adjacent upper there being an arcuate series of spaced bars surface of the gyrating plate, and in this 39 4t forming the lower part of the crushing manner the material, even though of a sticky chamber and between which the crushed manature is kept loose and in motion toward terial when reduced to a suiiicient fineness is the rotor, and clogging of the material in the expelled from said chamber; a rotor in the machine averted. chamber consisting of a series of discs 5 The particular construction of the grind- Tioun'ted upon a drive-shaft 6 and a series of ing or crushing means here shown as an hammers 7 having hinged connection with example is immaterial, as other common said d scs; and a breaker plate 8 mounted in means of reducing the material as it passes the housing, under said hopper 2, and upon over the breaker plate may be substituted for which the material to be reduced is crushed the structure shown without departure from the action of said hammers in the manner the spirit of the invention, and therefore I established in the art. The invention condo not confine myself to the particular templates also in connection with said grindgrinding or crushing means shown. ing and crushing means a plate 9 that is What I claim is hinged at its upper end upon a rod 10 dis- 1. In combination with a crushing or posed transversely in the upper part of the grinding means including a housing having hopper, said plate forming a movable bota hopper, a crushing chamber with a grating tom for said hopper; and a gyrating plate in the bottom thereof, and a rotor in said 11 positioned between the breaker plate 8 chamber, a breaker plate in cooperative reand the movable bottom 9 of-t-he hopper. lation with said rotor; a pendant hinged The upper end of the'gyrating plate 11 is plate forming a movable bottom for said mounted upon a crank 12, and the lower end hopper; a feeding means comprising a gyof said plate is provided with a shoe 18 fixed rating plate positioned between said movable thereon, the outer portion of which is tapered bottom and said breaker plate, the lower end to a sharp edge and bears upon the breaker of said gyrating plate having reciprocating plate 8 while the lower end of the movable movement on said breaker plate and sliding contact with said movable bottom; and transmitting means in connection with said rot-or imparting movement to said feeding means.

2. In combination with a crushing or grinding means including a rotor and a breaker plate, a hinged plate spaced above said breaker plate; a gyrating feed plate positioned between said hinged plate and breaker plate and having sliding contact at its lower end with said breaker plate, said swinging platehaving sliding contact at its lower end on said feed plate adjacent the lower end thereof; and means for actuating said rotor and feed plate.

3. In combination with a crushing or grinding means including. a breaker plate and a rotor, two movable plates one of which s superimposed upon said breaker plate and rtends beneath the other movable plate, and

has sliding contact at one end portion thereof upon said breaker plate and with the corresponding end of said other movable plate; and means for actuating said intermediate plate and rotor simultaneously.

4:. In combination with a crushing or grinding means including a breaker plate and a hopper, a swinging bottom member in said hopper spaced above said breaker plate, and a reciprocating feed member disposed between said bottom member and breaker plate, one end of said feed member having scraping action on said breaker plate, and the lower end of said bottom member having scraping action onsaid feed member as said feed member is actuated whereby plastic material passing from said hopper into said hopper onto said breaker plate is prevented from massing on said feed member and breaker plate.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

DIEDRICI-I C. ADDICKS. 

